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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






2. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






3. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






4. What is normal albumin levels?






5. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






6. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






7. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






8. What is RDA of protein?






9. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






10. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






11. Sources of fats






12. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






13. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






14. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






15. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






16. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






17. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






18. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






19. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






20. What function is vitamin A?






21. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






22. What is the function of vitamin E?






23. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






24. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease






25. What type of people need extra protein?






26. Name six sources of grains






27. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






28. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






29. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






30. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






31. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






32. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






33. When does BMR increase?






34. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






35. How much more calories are needed for lactation?






36. Where can you get more vitamin D?






37. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






38. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






39. What is normal BMI?






40. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






41. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






42. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






43. What function is vitamin D?






44. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






45. How many calories/gram is protein?






46. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






47. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






48. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






49. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






50. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?